Photojournalism, how it works and who’s good
Smoking after a long days work at sea
Brandon Lucero
Photojournalism 320
Instructor Bruce Berman
September 04, 2014
Photojournalism, how it works and who’s good
1. Photojournalism according to merriam-webster.com is, ” journalism in which written copy is subordinate to pictorial usually photographic presentation of news stories or in which a high proportion of pictorial presentation is used; broadly,news photography (merriam-webster.com).”
2. Photojournalism distinguishes itself from other forms of reportage photography by having to be more journalistic in its approach where street photography is the capturing of social changes that are significant and important in history.
3. Photojournalist make a living by working for magazines, Hollywood production companies and a press agency, etc.
4. A professional organization that represents photojournalists is the National Press Photographers Association. If I had to join this organization the reasoning would be because they, ” are more committed than ever to crafting new ways to equip, support, and celebrate our members’ work in new media (https://nppa.org/get-involved).” The benefits include, ” Competitions award top-notch work, and our job bank makes finding employment easy. Workshops, conferences, and online education keep professionals at the top of their game, while many networking outlets provide opportunities for mentoring and skill development (https://nppa.org/get-involved).” Professional member ship is $110 annually and $65 annually for students.
5. Three photo agencies that represent photojournalists are FTIP, Magnum and AP. The function of a photo agency is to display work, make work connections and help get the photojournalist a way to put their work out there for others to see.
6. Photojournalism began in the last two decades because, ” The early 1990’s saw the dawn of purely digital news photography. In the 1980’s, magazines and newspapers started to experiment with incorporating digitized images into their layouts. Though some photojournalists were carrying laptops to remote places, setting up makeshift darkrooms, and scanning and transmitting film photos, the digital switchover did not start in earnest until 1992 ().” There is also the fact that, ” The difference between today’s “citizen photojournalism” and the aforementioned examples is the ubiquity of the imaging devices in modern society. In 2004, consumers bought 257 million camera-equipped mobile phones. By comparison, during the same time only 68 million digital cameras were sold. Millions upon millions of people are walking around with cameras in their pockets, waiting to become accidental photojournalists (http://web.mit.edu/drb/Public/PhotoThesis/).”
7. The golden age of photojournalism is, ” which lasted from the 1930’s to the 50’s, photographers such as Robert Capa and Alfred Eistenstaedt became household names for the news-consuming public (http://www.photography-schools.com/photojournalismhistory.htm).”
8. An example of a contemporary source of photojournalism is a New York Times online photo blog by the name of Lens.
9. A contemporary photojournalist that I like would have to be Corey Arnold. He is not my favorite photographer ever but I would like to emulate some of his work because I like how he did most of it on the ocean. It has a kind of authentic nature about it because after all I know exactly how dangerous and how beautiful the ocean can be! More of his work can be seen at http://www.americanphotomag.com/photo-gallery/2014/03/creature-sea and http://www.coreyfishes.com/koken/
References:
Daniel R. Bersak. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (2006). Web. September 2014. Retrieved from http://web.mit.edu/drb/Public/PhotoThesis/
Dillon Westbrook. A Brief History of Photojournalism. (2014). Web. September 2014. Retrieved from http://www.photography-schools.com/photojournalismhistory.htm.
merriam-webster.com (2014). Web. September 2014. Retrieved from
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/photojournalism
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